Tech Leaders Fine Dining Series: An Omakase for Engineering Leaders Planning 2027

​Headcount or tokens? An omakase for engineering leaders planning 2027.

​Budget season is here, and the same question keeps landing on every engineering leader's desk: how much of next year goes to people, and how much goes to AI spend? Plenty of teams went from celebrating usage charts to setting hard caps in a single quarter. Nobody has a clean answer yet, and the people we've hosted this fall don't agree on one.

​A small group at an omakase counter to compare notes, off the record:

• ​How are you splitting 2027 budget between headcount and AI spend, and who signed off?

• ​What are you measuring to prove the tokens are worth it, when most metrics get gamed?

• ​If code is cheap, where did the cost go: review, validation, or the people who own what ships?

​THE EVENING

​Wednesday, October 28, 5:15 PM. Takumi Omakase, 181 Essex St, Lower East Side. A seated omakase at the counter, so please arrive on time.

​Dinner is on us. No panel, no deck, no pitches. Everything said at the table stays at the table.

​Invite only. Requests are reviewed by hand and confirmed by email.

​Who has joined past dinners: CEOs, CTOs, COOs, CISOs, SVPs, VPs and Heads of AI from Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Adobe, SAP, Cisco, Arm, AMD, LinkedIn, Coinbase, Roblox, Cloudflare, 1Password, LangChain, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Nike.

​Event partners: You.com, Composio, Founders Bay, Alumni Ventures, AI Collective and MongoDB.

​Hosted by Brett Foreman · Tech Leaders Fine Dining Series